Feb 2017 – Nov 2017 · 9 mos

• Senior Software Engineer at PayPal Labs
• Served as the technical lead on cross-functional R&D initiatives
• Collaborated with firmware, mobile, and product teams to prototype and demo secure payment experiences
• Filed and was granted multiple U.S. patents for innovations developed in this role

Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 · 1 yr

• Senior Software Engineer in the PayPal Research Labs Team.

Jun 2013 – Jan 2016 · 2 yrs 7 mos

• Senior Software Engineer in the PayPal Research Labs Team.
• 1. Was instrumental in developing a full fledged iOS app for an important project. Was applauded by the senior management for creating a production quality highly polished app much before the deadline.
• 2. Created an end to end FIDO U2F compliant project that included a JAVA server, a MAC client app and a chrome extension with capabilities like Bluetooth data exchange and enhanced security.
• Worked as a part of Emerging initiatives group at Paypal India Development Center.
• • Generated a lot of new ideas that resulted in 3 Patents during my stay in the team.
• • Leveraged existing technologies to make the PayPal platform better for the developers.
• • Developed prototypes for the valuable ideas and iterated through them to make full fledged scalable services. Some of the notable projects I have been a part of are mentioned below.
• 1. Artifacts Sharing Platform: Worked as a part of a team to develop a platform for sharing different types of artifacts present in a digital wallet.
• • My responsibilities included mainly handling the integration of the database and building rest services for this platform
• • This project was my first big scale project which made me realize the importance of unit testing, version control and other best practices of software engineering.
• 2. Adding Sharing Feature to the PayPal Mobile Wallet Android App:
• • Worked on integrating the rest service made in the previous project to work with the PayPal Wallet Android app
• • Designed and implemented various flows for the sharing feature
• 3. Eclipse Plugin for PayPal Java Rest Service
• • Developed a prototype for a helix plugin as a part of the PayPal productivity Hackathon . The plugin could automate various configuration tasks and reduced the development time by around 25%.
• • This emerged as a winner for the hackathon and we turned the same into a full fledged working solution.

May 2013 – Sep 2013 · 4 mos · Greater Chennai Area

• Worked for the Apertium community to develop a Hindi to English Rule based Translation engine.
• • Implemented python scripts to crawl the web and extracted a Hindi English Corpus. Also implemented some scripts to develop Hindi monolingual dictionary and Hindi-English Bilingual dictionary which had a coverage of about 95%.
• • Designed and implemented various grammar rules for the translation engine.
• • Fine tuned the translation engine to work for this language pair
• • Extracted and analzed a large dataset to come up with more rules for the translation engine
• •Was able to move the project from incubation to the nursery stage in the list of Apertium projects
• • Will be mentoring a student in GSOC 2014 to make the project ready for release.

May 2012 – Jul 2012 · 2 mos · West Midlands, England, United Kingdom

• Worked as a research intern at the Adaptive Networks Group in Aston University.
• • Developed a prototype that could help in fall detection in elderly people using wireless sensor networks.
• •Learned and experimented with tools like TinyOS and nesC in order to program the wireless sensor motes. Implemented and tested various protocols for the wireless Sensor Networks.
• •Developed a software interface (mainly in java) that could help link the wireless sensors to the world wide web for easy publishing and sharing of information

Jul 2011 – Aug 2011 · 1 mo · Roorkee,India

• Worked under Prof Bala Subhramaniam in the area of Digital Image Processing.
• • Developed and tested algorithms for digital watermarking of colored images using wavelet transforms and singular value decomposition.
• •Improved the previous proposed algorithms accuracy by 15%

May 2011 – Jun 2011 · 1 mo · Gurugram, Haryana, India

• Worked on two projects during the internship at AVL which mainly involved developing assembly language software for the chiller operation IC's which were used for temperature control and pressure monitoring.Programmed the PIC microcontroller for the efficient operation of the IC